The power distribution segment has been the focus of government reforms and schemes for many years. While these programmes have helped improve the segment’s performance to some extent, there is still significant scope for improvement. […]
India is aggressively moving towards its energy transition ambitions and the targets set at the COP26 summit held in Glasgow. Roughly 157 GW of clean energy, comprising 110 GW of renewable energy and 47 GW […]
Renewable energy installations in India have crossed 113 GW, with solar and wind capacities reaching 56.95 GW and 40.71 GW respectively, as of May 2022. This is a significant increase from just 69 GW of […]
Economies across the world are focusing on accelerating clean energy transition. While renewables have grown apace in the past few years, the recent Russia-Ukraine war and its impact on global energy prices has led countries […]
The short-term power trading market is expected to gain greater prominence in the backdrop of several recent policy and regulatory developments. According to the draft National Electricity Policy, 2021 (NEP), the government aims to deepen […]
The Indian power sector saw significant changes in the past one year, led by the power majors. Gencos added significant capacity in the past year, taking the country’s total thermal additions to 4,485 MW in […]
Power generation recorded a compound annual growth rate of 4.9 per cent to reach 1,484 BUs in 2021-22 from 964 BUs in 2012-13. Thermal generation accounted for 75 per cent of the total in 2021-22, […]
The national plant load factor (PLF) registered a decline from 69.9 per cent in 2012-13 to 58.8 per cent in 2021-22. Across the central, state and private sectors, the PLF stood at 69.7 per cent, […]
The generation segment witnessed several policy reforms in the past year aimed at pulling it out of its stressed state. Progressive measures were announced by the government in the areas of hydro and coal. Renewables […]
The year 2018-19 has been an eventful one for the country’s renewable energy sector. India jumped three places to become the second largest clean energy investment market worldwide as per the Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s […]
The Indian electricity transmission segment has been constantly evolving in line with power demand as well as the changing energy mix owing to an increasing influx of renewables. Going forward, an investment of Rs 2.6 […]
While the power distribution segment has witnessed significant growth over the past few years, it continues to face challenges such as high aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses, low revenue collection, high level of cross-subsidies, […]
During the past 12 months, the key focus areas of policy and regulatory developments in the power sector have broadly pertained to easing stress in the thermal power segment, promoting electric vehicles (EVs), managing renewable […]
With thermal power plants facing a demand crunch and discoms not signing power purchase agreements (PPAs) beyond their baseload, the short-term power trading market has emerged as a necessary mechanism in recent years for sellers […]
In the past year, the power sector has witnessed significant achievements, the most notable being the near 100 per cent household electrification under the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya). The performance of […]
After maintaining a strong momentum for many years, the power sector witnessed a fizzling out of conventional generation capacity addition in 2018-19. The thermal segment added only about 5,782 MW of capacity in 2018-19 as […]
Power generation recorded a compound annual growth rate of 5.66 per cent to reach 1,244,930 MUs in 2018-19 from 717,894 MUs in 2008-09. Thermal generation accounted for 86 per cent of the total in 2018-19, […]
The national plant load factor (PLF) registered a marginal improvement from 59.91 per cent in 2017-18 to 61.07 per cent in 2018-19. Across the central, state and private sectors, PLFs have been showing a decline […]
Capacity addition by renewable energy sources continues to outpace that by conventional sources. In 2017-18, about 11,788 MW of renewable energy capacity was added while capacity addition by conventional sources including thermal and hydro stood […]
The renewable energy segment has seen remarkable developments over the past few years, driven by the government’s efforts to create a conducive policy and regulatory environment. The segment has been further aided by a sharp […]
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